Where I Live

July 9, 2012

God only knows how many photos I've taken of dogs on this bed. You can see my big cur-dog Smoke, for one, at the top of the left sidebar. I took this photo of Jasper late last night. [As always, click to embiggen.] We're at the family cabin south of Big Bear Lake, in the San Bernardino National Forest.

I'm organizing a related Flickr set. Two, count 'em, two photos so far! Here's the link: Dogs on the bed.

Smoke holds the fort

My good boy at the cabin.

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Matters of Principle

"Everyone who enjoys birds and birding must always respect wildlife, its environment, and the rights of others. In any conflict of interest between birds and birders, the welfare of the birds and their environment comes first."ABA Code of Ethics

California Quail

Lions, Bears, Coyotes...

Western Tanager

Tejon Wildflowers

Fanciulla del West

The play inspired an opera set in California, in the Sierras, with a self-reliant heroine, her Mexican lover, everyone alive at the final curtain and Puccini's best score. God is good.

More West

Cover by Maynard Dixon.

Cabin

Yesterday and Today

Local Foothills

Parientes

De Mestizo y d'India; Coyote

Big Bear Lake

Frances Gearhart, Untroubled Waters, 1931

About

This blog is about wild birds and birding in Southern [and occasionally Northern] California, especially the inland valleys and the San Bernardinos, and also about gardens, good dogs, weather and wildlife, with occasional posts on the jagged and the shiny.